Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25
GAINESVILLE.
Tie Future GFest-A City Whose Pop
ulatiOn Increased From 1890 to
1900 FROM 1850 to 1856.
In Six Years the Western Village Sports
Street Railway Splendid Waterworks
Grand Froe Schools, a Good System
OE Sewerage, Etc. Etc.

Gainesville, the county site of Cooke
county, and the commercial metropolis of
Cooke, Montague, Wise and q part of
Denton counties, ss well as the Chicka-
saw nation of the Indian Territory, is sit
uated on the Elm Fork of the Trinity
river. 1t is surrounded by thickly and
rich populated country, which has no su-
perlOr on the continent as an agricultural
and grazing region.
GAINESVILLE IS a prosperous little city of
about 10000 inha bitants, and is growing
very rapidly. 1t has a splendid future
| before it, and unless all signs fail it will
soon be one Of tie most important com
mercial and industrial centers in the
southwest.
Il has attained it's present importance
with no facilities other than the rich
country surrounding IL and the pluck and
energy Of its Inhabitants. But now a new
career is opening up before it, and It
gives promise of greater improvement in
the near future. In 1919 the first railroad
reached it-a branch Of the Missouri Pa
cidc from WhitesborO, sixteen miles.
With no other railroad facilities it has
grown to its present Importance.
RAILROADS.
The first great factor to be considered
in the make up Of western town is its
railroad facilities. If this is taken into
account Gainesville will certainly be one
of the most prosperous cities in
the country, for il it has grown so with
only one short lac of road, we may safely
reckon on still greater Improvement in
the near future when her new railroad en-
terprises are completed.
The Missouri PaaiAn PaiIuaU which
runs from st. Louis to San Antonio, has q
branch from the mHfA line at Whites
boro to Gainesville, sixteen miles.
This has been GainesFiIIe's only line of
transportation until December 30, 1856,
when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
reached US.
This road runs from Galveston to Kan
sas City, and is now comp Nd
The distance from Galveston 10 Gaines
vile is 40 miles, and the distance from
Gainesville to Kansas City about $50
miles. This line, being the union of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Re with the
Gull Colorado and Santa Fe, under the
Joint name of AtChison- Gulf Road, is one
of the greatest trunk lines on the CONT
nent. IL has affssCeeI rails and flrst-Class
rolling stock, and runs two through trains
daily each way.
Gainesville is the first point reached
after Leaving the Indian Territory, gong
south. 1t is the end Of 2 division, and 8
roundh0use and repair shops are now
nearly completed. This road, with its
connections, gives us through line to
Chicago and St. Louis, while the Mis-
souri, Pacific, with its connections, gives
US q competing line to the same places.
THE GAINESVILLE, HENRIETTA AND WEST
is completed from this city to Henrietta,
seventy-fye miles west. A passenger
train ruus from Dallas, via this city, to
Henrietta, and another from Henrietta to
Dallas, each day, and two trains from Den
ison toHenrietta via this city and back each
day. At Henrietts these trains connect
with the Fort Worth and Denver Road,
running from Fort Worth, Tex, through
the PsHhandle region to Denver, Col.
OTHER LINES CONTEMPLATED.
The Gainesville, Pilot Point and Yves
ton Road is chartered from Mckinney